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'Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition.'- Publishers WeeklyA scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic mystic philosopher Simone Weil...My Weil follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester, England, the post-industrial city of so much great music and culture. They're working class, by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs.Their immediate enemies are the drone-like Business Studies students all around them, as well as the assured and serene PhD students of the posh university up the road. And they're working together on a film, through which they're trying to make sense of their lives in Manchester and, in particular, to the Ees, a mysterious patch of countryside that appears to have supernatural qualities.Into their midst arrives Simone Weil, a PhD student, a version of the twentieth century philosopher, who becomes the unlikely star of their film. Simone is devout, ascetic, intensely serious, and busy with risky charity work with the homeless. Valentine, hustler-philosopher, recognises Simone as a fellow would-be saint. But Gita, Indian posh-girl, is suspicious: what's with Simone's nun-shoes? And Marcie (AKA Den Mom), the leader of the pack, is too busy with her current infatuation, nicknamed Ultimate Destruction Girl, to notice.The narrator, Johnny, who was brought up in care and is psychologically fragile, and deeply disturbed by the poverty of his adopted city, gradually falls in love in Simone. But will his love be requited? Will Simone be able to save the souls of her new friends and Manchester itself from apocalypse?

Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) war ein deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer und Herausgeber zur Zeit der Aufklärung. Aus dem Buch:'Nichts von allem was wir sehen und hören, und keiner von den angenehmsten Eindrücken, womit diese Erscheinungen in unserm Innern verbunden sind, kann jenem wunderbaren Triebe genug tun. Nichts erscheint uns so schön, so groß, so vortrefflich in seiner Art, daß wir nicht etwas noch schöneres, größeres und vortrefflicheres in dieser Art denken könnten, oder, oft sogar wider unsern Willen, ahnen müßten. Wenn es auch einige Gegenstände und Gefühle gibt, die unsre ganze Seele auszufüllen und zu befriedigen scheinen, so ist es doch in der Tat nur im unmittelbaren Augenblick des Genusses.'

Jiyan, un jeune philosophe rencontre un vieux sage. Leur conversation s'engage sous un vieux chêne centenaire et se poursuit en marchant dans la forêt. Evdal répond aux multiples interrogations de son jeune disciple, de manière bienveillante et inédite en lui racontant des contes philosophiques qu'il a inventés pour les hommes. Le jeune philosophe et le vieux sage écrit par l'auteur il y a 10 ans à son arrivée en France, se fait écho à cette enfance et reflète ce qui caractérise Mem Aydin : son goût pour la recherche d'une pensée juste et utile qu'il aime partager avec les autres. Réveille la philosophie qui est en toi!

Ara: discussões filosóficas no sertão introduz ao leitor, por meio de diálogos, canções e poesias, questões sociais e filosóficas fundamentais, entre elas a noção de justiça, a relação entre moral e política, e entre fé e razão. Além disso, a leitura nos convida a fazer uma reflexão mais crítica acerca da origem dos preconceitos e do nosso dever moral e social enquanto cidadãos conscientes. É como diz Ara, a personagem que aqui representa a filosofia: — A felicidade que se conquista coletivamente vale em dobro individualmente.

Heloisa und Abaelard. Äbtissin und Abt. Ihre Liebesbriefe gehören zur Weltliteratur. Schon Heloisas Geburt ist von Geheimnissen umgeben, ihre Herkunft wird im Dunkeln gelassen. Um das Jahr 1116 – sie ist da Anfang zwanzig – lernt sie in Paris Abaelard kennen, der damals schon ein berühmter Philosoph ist. Dieser verliebt sich in die hochgebildete Heloisa, wird ihr Hauslehrer und mietet sich bei ihrem Onkel Fulbert ein. Doch es gelingt ihnen nicht, ihre leidenschaftliche, verbotene Liebe verborgen zu halten. Ihre Enthüllung sorgt für einen Eklat, durch den Heloisa schier unerträglichen Schikanen ausgesetzt ist, ja als Hure geschmäht wird. Abaelard lässt sie aus Paris zu seiner Familie bringen, wo sie einen Sohn zur Welt bringt. Fulbert zwingt sie zur Heirat, wodurch das Kind nachträglich legitimiert wird. Kurz darauf verändert ein schockierendes Verbrechen an Abaelard ihr Leben und treibt Heloisa zu einem Schritt, den sie als Wahnsinn bezeichnet. Beide treten in Klöster ein, schreiben sich seelenvolle Briefe, in denen sie sich über philosophische Themen und existentielle Nöte austauschen – vereint sind sie erst wieder im Tod, das gemeinsame Grabmal der großen Liebenden befindet sich seit 1817 auf dem Père Lachaise.

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Extrait :'Nous connaissons un homme qui, au milieu de la fièvre de changement et d'ambition qui travaille notre société, a continué d'accepter, sans révolte, son humble rôle dans le monde, et a conservé, pour ainsi dire, le goût de la pauvreté. Sans autre fortune qu'une petite place, dont il vit sur ces étroites limites qui séparent l'aisance de la misère, notre philosophe regarde, du haut de sa mansarde, la société comme une mer dont il ne souhaite point les richesses...'À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants : ● Fiction : roman, poésie, théâtre, jeunesse, policier, libertin. ● Non fiction : histoire, essais, biographies, pratiques.

W „Poglądach księdza Hieronima Coignarda” Anatole France – noblista, erudyta i bibliofil – daje wyraz własnych przekonań na temat instytucji życia publicznego, wymiaru sprawiedliwości i ludzkich postaw. Ukrywa je pod maską minionego wieku, jednak złośliwe aluzje do czasów współczesnych autorowi są doskonale widoczne i świadczą o aktualności prozy France'a.

Livraison Céleste parle des rêves que l'on n'arrive pas à atteindre. La Veilleuse traite de notre vie que l'on met trop souvent en veilleuse tandis que La Vie est Injuste parle des inégalités humaines et de notre rapport avec elles. Ces histoires nous invitent à réfléchir sur notre condition d'êtres humains. Elles sont destinées aux adultes de tous âges.

A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while discussing philosophy, literature, and war. The impossible question of an enormous student in a lecture hall at an English university sets off a series of alternate paths that open before them like a fan. In taverns, boats, and plazas, the two protagonists discuss John Donne, Lawrence of Arabia, and Lenin with English students, a group of young and old women, and eight hundred drinkers, all the while being dropped from one strange place into the next. A remarkable work of refined surreal comedy.

Fundamental questions about life arise in various contexts, making us wonder about the real worth of living. However, it is certainly a sign of our times when one is alerted to the fundamental question about the meaning and significance of life by an ominous text message. The main character of this book, Professor Enrique de los Reyes, receives such a warning: the onset of super-typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ever to hit landfall, and the impending danger to his friend and his relatives in the Philippines. As he anxiously awaits more news, he recalls and reviews in the context of this tragedy his philosophical wanderings throughout a long academic career in pursuit of the meaning of life. He wonders how these could now be reconciled with the urgent need for him to attend to this particular situation. The response to his query comes from a most unexpected source as he assesses Alexander Pope's advice to drink deeply from the Pierian spring and realises its import for one's conduct in life. This reflective account of a human quest is the last volume in a trilogy which probes into philosophical themes in a narrative way. The first book, Those Distant Shores: A Narrative of Human Restlessness, looks at human restlessness and explores the fundamental theme of human transcendence by following the life-stories of three boyhood friends and of another young student as they embark on their respective journeys in life. The second book, That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom: A Tale of the Human Thirst for Knowledge, deals with the fundamental craving of human beings for fulfilment as depicted in the various characters from different countries who pursue their respective academic interests and ambitions.

Literatura Random House reedita esta comedia filosófica deslumbrante salpicada de cibercultura, porno y videojuegos. Una joven estudiante de filosofía acorrala a su viejo profesor por los pasillos de la facultad. Dos adolescentes encuentran en su deformidad física y moral un buen motivo para unirse. Una militante de izquierda escribe cartas a Mao. Y una teoría antropo-psico-política lo explica todo. Las teorías salvajes, deslumbrante y provocador debut literario de Pola Oloixarac, es una sátira de la oficialidad académica, política, cultural y'progre'de los setenta, bombardeada con los argumentos de una femme fatale. Publicada por primera vez en 2008, traducida a seis idiomas y merecedora de innumerables elogios en Argentina, España y Francia, esta novela produjo un terremoto en el mundo de las letras, suscitando reacciones tan intensas como distintas. Con esta nueva edición, Literatura Random House vuelve a hacer circular una comedia filosófica extraordinaria salpicada de cibercultura, porno y videojuegos. La crítica ha dicho:'La prosa de Pola Oloixarac es el gran acontecimiento de la nueva narrativa argentina.'Ricardo Piglia'A todas luces uno de los primeros clásicos de este siglo que ha dado la literatura hispanoamericana.'El Mundo (España)

The writer Hari Kunzru says “made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages” is back—with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He's a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought.But Peters—a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite—soon discovers that there's no place for logic in a Cambridge overrun by posh boys and picnicking tourists, as England's greatest university is collapsing under market pressures.Such a place calls for a derangement of the senses, best achieved by lethal homemade cocktails consumed on Cambridge rooftops, where Peters joins his fellows as they attempt to forget about the void awaiting them after graduation, challenge one another to think so hard they die, and dream about impressing Wittgenstein Jr with one single, noble thought.And as they scramble to discover what, indeed, they have to gain from the experience, they realize that their teacher is struggling to survive. For Peters, it leads to a surprising turn—and for all of them, a challenge to see how the life of the mind can play out in harsh but hopeful reality.Combining his trademark wit and sharp brilliance, Wittgenstein Jr is Lars Iyer's most assured and ambitious novel yet—as impressive, inventive and entertaining as it is extraordinarily stirring.

First published 2007 under title: Pleasure Island : land of the dancing mermaids.

Stoned out of his skull! This is how we find washed-up New York Magazine writer, Digby Maxwell, when he is offered his last chance to redeem himself by becoming editor of a small philosophy magazine headquartered in a rural Vermont college town. Digby's assignment: to make the philosophy magazine relevant to contemporary culture. For starters, that requires several more tokes. Very deep tokes. A wildly witty novel in the tradition of J.P Donleavy and Nick Hornsby, Nothing Serious takes serious pot shots at Manhattan pop culture and academic small-mindedness, sexual obsessions and political correctness, 21st century alienation and philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Sartre.

A wickedly funny and satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma—called “Uproarious” by the New York Times Book Review—return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination.With philosophy professors being moved to badminton departments and gin in short supply—although not short enough—the two hapless intellectuals embark on a relentless mission. Well, several relentless missions. For one, they must help gear a guerilla philosophy movement—conducted outside the academy, perhaps under bridges—that will save the study of philosophy after the long, miserable decades of intellectual desert known as the early 21st-century.For another, they must save themselves, perhaps by learning to play badminton after all. Gin isn't free, you know.

An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit - a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the'ogre'of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn. Taking us more deeply into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since The Tin Drum, Tournier's masterpiece rivets us until the very last page, when Abel meets his mystic fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich; it is a novel that shocks us, dazzles us, and above all holds us spellbound.

«Esta sabia y conmovedora novela de Italo Calvino encierra en su brevedad y aparente sencillez una hondura sutil que solamente los grandes maestros son capaces de transmitir».Corriere della Sera Del mismo modo que el observatorio que lleva su nombre, el señor Palomar mira y analiza el mundo. El señor Palomar observa y piensa mientras parece no hacer nada, pero una actividad incesante, que se traduce en una evolución de su pensamiento acerca del mundo, bulle en su interior. Las experiencias de Palomar consisten en concentrarse en pequeños objetos y fenómenos a través de cuyo minucioso análisis encontrará una relación entre el objeto y el universo, o entre el yo y el universo, porque este se refleja, se verifica y se multiplica en todo lo que nos rodea. Todo es lo mismo y todo forma parte de lo mismo. El mar, el cielo, las estrellas, un prado, un pequeño queso en la estantería de un supermercado, el mármol ensangrentado de una carnicería encierran las preguntas sobre la existencia. El itinerario de Palomar hacia la sabiduría recrea una historia en la que la anónima vida del protagonista se eleva como ejemplo del vertiginoso viaje interior que muy pocos osan realizar.

From the olive trees of southern France to Gnostic cults in Egypt, a man and his lovers are invented and reinvented in this first volume of a great literary adventure. For British doctor Bruce Drexel, a return to Provence is bittersweet. Here, at a rustic chateau, he once fell in love with Sylvie, the Frenchwoman who would become his wife, and befriended her brother, Piers. The three made up a peculiar, potent ménage for years until Sylvie's descent into madness and Piers's suicide. As Drexel attends to Piers's affairs, he becomes steeped in the memories of a spiritually transformational trip to Egypt; the band of intellectual confederates who used to be his intimate friends; and a three-sided love that became his reason for being. So begins Monsieur, the masterful first entry of Durrell's Avignon Quintet, an infinite regress of memory and imagination that challenges the formal conventions of fiction.

Esta sabia y conmovedora novela de Italo Calvino encierra en su brevedad y aparente sencillez una hondura sutil que solamente los grandes maestros son capaces de transmitir.Corriere della SeraDel mismo modo que el observatorio que lleva su nombre, el señor Palomar mira y analiza el mundo. El señor Palomar observa y piensa, entre la aparente no actividad y la enorme actividad interior, que se traduce en evolución del pensamiento acerca del mundo. Las experiencias de Palomar consisten en concentrarse en pequeños objetos y fenómenos a través de cuyo minucioso análisis encontrará una relación entre el objeto y el universo, o entre el yo y el universo, porque éste se refleja, se verifica y se multiplica en todo lo que nos rodea. Todo es lo mismo y todo forma parte de lo mismo. El mar, el cielo, las estrellas, un prado, un pequeño queso en la estantería de un supermercado, el mármol ensangrentado de una carnicería encierran en ellos mismos todas las preguntas sobre la existencia.El itinerario de Palomar hacia la sabiduría recrea una historia en la que la anónima vida del protagonista se eleva como ejemplo del vertiginoso viaje interior que muy pocos osan realizar.

An “immaculately written, trenchantly honest, hugely compelling” novel from the Giller Prize–winning author of Stranger (Globe and Mail). When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan, and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychiatrist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his daughter appears to be having an affair with one of her professors. What is a thinking man to do but turn to Cicero and Plato and Socrates in search of the truth? Or better still, to call one of those discreet “dating services” in search of happiness? But happiness, as Morris discovers, is not that easy to find. David Bergen's most accomplished novel, The Matter with Morris, is an unforgettable story with a vitality, charm, and intelligence all its own. Bergen proves once again that he is a rare and exceptional writer, dazzling us with his wit and touching us with his compassion. “The Matter With Morris is more interested in showing that simply getting on with life is one of the best ways to counter grief, a premise it supports with quiet effectiveness.”—The New York Times Book Review “A beautiful, smart, deeply moving book.”—Miriam Toews, author of A Complicated Kindness “Bergen writes earnestly about dignity and duty, particularly as they apply to fatherhood and women.” —Booklist

A plague of rats, the end of philosophy, the cosmic chicken, and bars that don't serve Plymouth Gin—is this the Apocalypse or is it just America? “The apocalypse is imminent,” thinks W. He has devoted his life to philosophy, but he is about to be cast out from his beloved university. His friend Lars is no help at all—he's too busy fighting an infestation of rats in his flat. A drunken lecture tour through the American South proves to be another colossal mistake. In desperation, the two British intellectuals turn to Dogma, a semi-religious code that might yet give meaning to their lives. Part Nietzsche, part Monty Python, part Huckleberry Finn, Dogma is a novel as ridiculous and profound as religion itself. The sequel to the acclaimed novel Spurious, Dogma is the second book in one of the most original literary trilogies since Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.

In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a'slightly more successful'friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences and better gin. One reason for their journeys: the narrator's home is slowly being taken over by a fungus that no one seems to know what to do about. Before it completely swallows his house, the narrator feels compelled to solve some major philosophical questions (such as'Why?') and the meaning of his urge to write, as well as the source of the fungus... before it is too late. Or, he has to move.

Carlos: nuestro protagonista, fruto del desencuentro que mantiene con su pareja: Dolores, busca entre filósofos, maestros, pensadores, politicos y todo aquel hombre que ha dejado para la posteridad su visión sobre las mujeres, una respuesta a sus preguntas con intención de llegar a entender a la propia a través del conocimiento de las demás. El libro que tienes entre tus manos podríamos definirlo como una novela ficción basada en sueños reales, pues combina realidad con ficción. Es un libro en el que se refleja el pensamiento masculino para con la mujer a lo largo de casi 3000 años (que no es poco). Es una reflexión políticamente incorrecta sobre al amor, la pasión, el hombre, la mujer, la religión, la política, la felicidad, y la ausencia de la misma, de la vida y de la muerte, y sobre nuestros encuentros y desencuentros durante el camino que recorremos juntos hombres y mujeres, filosofía al fin y al cabo. He procurado no omitir nada, lo bueno, lo regular y lo malo, que de todo ha habido, a pocos dejará indiferente. Están ustedes avisados

The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces together—literally, from thousands of slips of papers and one troubling manuscript—the puzzle of Rotheimer's breakdown, what emerges is the story of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul. Considered by many critics to be Thomas Bernhard's masterpiece, Correction is a cunningly crafted and unforgettable meditation on the tension between the desire for perfection and the knowledge that it is unattainable.

The latest magnificent creation from the award-winning author of Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle trilogy. Erasmas,'Raz', is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Three times during history's darkest epochs, violence has invaded and devastated the cloistered community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe. But they now prepare to open the Concent's gates to the outside world, in celebration of a once-a-decade rite. Suddenly, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world - as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet...and beyond.

From “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” and a Man Booker Prize winner, a priest descends into madness in a London rectory after WWII (The Guardian). Carel Fisher was once a bastion of faith, a shining example of Anglican goodness and Christian values. But time and circumstance have worn him down as surely as the bombs of the Blitz have broken apart the very walls around him. His convictions have vanished and his belief in mankind has tarnished. Imprisoned within his own mind and the decaying walls of his ruined rectory, he has few companions left: his niece and his household staff, all of whom become collateral damage as Father Carel's reality becomes a twisted mirror for his views on the human condition. As relationships and desires, resentments and retributions, begin to crowd the small church, secrets are revealed that will shatter the lives of all involved, no matter how good or innocent they are. At once haunting and mysterious, The Time of the Angels is a captivating tale of madness and morality that “excites and delights,” while calling into question ideas of religion and decency in a world torn apart by the aftereffects of war (The New York Times).

Susannah's official boyfriend, Jason, is the perfect foil for her student lifestyle. He is ten years older, an antiques dealer, and owns a stylish apartment that prevents her from having to live in the seedy digs on campus. This way, she can take her philosophy major very seriously and dabble in the social and sexual freedom of 1970s university life. But circumstances become more complicated than Susannah would like when she begins to have an affair with her tutorial partner, Rob. Soon she is dating two men, missing her lectures, exploring independence and feminism with her girlfriends, and finding herself in a particularly impossible dilemma: she becomes pregnant. Forced to look beyond her friends and lovers for support, she finds help and inspiration from the lessons of Kierkegaard and other European philosophers.A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy is a delightfully insightful, bittersweet coming-of-age romp, in which love is far from platonic and the mind—body predicament a pressing reality. It even succeeds where many introductions to philosophy have failed, by effortlessly bringing to life the central tenets of the most important European philosophers of modern times.

This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism. In Sartor Resartus (‘the tailor retailored') a fictitious editor retells the theories of an equally fictitious German professor who has come to the conclusion that human institutions and morals are only clothes to shield us from nothingness, clothes that can be changed as the whims of the age or fashion dictate. This radically deconstructive vision reveals the very highest symbols of belief for what they are – merely symbols. How to believe in anything after such an insight is a question even more acute today than it was in Carlyle's time, when he first asked it in this masterpiece of invention, parody and profound laughter. This Canongate Classics edition incorporates illustrations by Edmund Sullivan, reproduced as they appeared in the 1898 edition of the text. Also included is the notable Emerson preface to the original American edition and an incisive, specially commissioned introduction from Alasdair Gray. ‘The character of his influences is best seen in the fact that many of the men who have least agreement with his opinions are those to whom the reading of Sartor Resartus was an epoch in the history of their minds.'George Eliot

Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna's intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein's dominant philosophy. Alan Turing's mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another—both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.

An innovative theory of consciousness, drawing on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and supported by brain-imaging, presented in the form of a hardboiled detective story.Professor Grue is dead (or is he?). When graduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing—she grabs her dissertation and runs. Little does she suspect that soon she will be probing the heart of two mysteries, trying to discover what happened to Max Grue, and trying to solve the profound neurophilosophical problem of consciousness. Radiant Cool may be the first novel of ideas that actually breaks new theoretical ground, as Dan Lloyd uses a neo-noir (neuro-noir?), hard-boiled framework to propose a new theory of consciousness.In the course of her sleuthing, Miranda encounters characters who share her urgency to get to the bottom of the mystery of consciousness, although not always with the most innocent motives. Who holds the key to Max Grue's ultimate vision? Is it the computer-inspired pop psychologist talk-show host? The video-gaming geek with a passion for artificial neural networks? The Russian multi-dimensional data detective, or the sophisticated neuroscientist with the big book contract? Ultimately Miranda teams up with the author's fictional alter ego,'Dan Lloyd,'and together they build on the phenomenological theories of philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) to construct testable hypotheses about the implementation of consciousness in the brain. Will the clues of phenomenology and neuroscience converge in time to avert a catastrophe? (The dramatic ending cannot be revealed here.) Outside the fictional world of the novel, Dan Lloyd (the author) appends a lengthy afterword, explaining the proposed theory of consciousness in more scholarly form. Radiant Cool is a real metaphysical thriller—based in current philosophy of mind—and a genuine scientific detective story—revealing a new interpretation of functional brain imaging. With its ingenious plot and its novel theory, Radiant Cool will be enjoyed in the classroom and the study for its entertaining presentation of phenomenology, neural networks, and brain imaging; but, most importantly, it will find its place as a groundbreaking theory of consciousness.